For many, marriage is foundational and so when a marriage falls apart it can feel like your foundation is crumbling and that your entire life is about to come crashing down. The emotional turmoil, financial repercussions, social changes, impact on your children and a host of other concerns can be overwhelming. We live in a world that never stops – jobs, bills, summer camp for the kids, taxes and more just keep going at full speed even as you struggle to face this massive change affecting your life. Below, we’ve shares stories and lessons from some of the bravest folks we know.

Jess Oliver

When my marriage ended, I didn’t chase a new beginning, I built one.

I started going to the gym, not to change my body, but to come back to myself. To quiet the noise in my head. To confront the version of me who only knew how to survive. I focused on self-love. I forgave the parts of me shaped by survival (still working on that one). I poured into my work and rooted myself in what I could create. I showed up for my kids, not just as their mom, but as an example of how to rebuild with intention. Read More>>

Dr. Geradine Gabriel

The Unraveling That Taught Me How to Rise

There is a moment in life when the future you’ve clung to—the one that felt as real as your own heartbeat—dissolves without warning. No amount of bargaining, no desperate grip, can hold it together.

For me, that moment was my divorce. Read More>>

Maya Armony

I’m actually in the tender midst of navigating divorce/separation as we speak—what I like to call my Quantum Crumble: the sacred unraveling of everything I thought was solid. It’s the breaking of illusion and the cracking open of deeper self-reclamation and alignment.

If you ask me this same question a year from now, I imagine my answer will carry an entirely new frequency. But for now, from within the chrysalis, here’s what I know: Read More>>